Nerds survive unemployment

[envirotex]

My recent project descriptions could fall under three of the top ten engineering fields.

Would these be nerd or geek jobs? Not that it really matters for me anyway; I have a pair of glasses held together with a staple...

 

[Master slacker]

^^^ Electrical Engineering is #17.

Everybody knows that EE isn't real engineering... That's probably why MS didn't count it.

Or, it could be that ME's aren't very good at reading... h34r: Yeah, that's probably it.

Ya know, I was going to say something to the effect of EE not really being an engineering discipline, but that's like proclaiming that blue is a primary color. And ngnrd has a point... I really don't know how I made it past 2nd grade.

 

[mudpuppy]

So you think electricity just magically appears at your house?

 

[snickerd3]

^isn't that how it works? ;-) Just like Santa its magic

 

[Capt Worley PE]

So you think electricity just magically appears at your house?

I don't think it.

I know it.

 

[mudpuppy]

I guess that makes me a Magical Engineer. Hmm, that sounds a little :ghey:

 

[Ble_PE]

I guess that makes me a Magical Engineer. Hmm, that sounds a little :ghey:

Not that there's anything wrong with that...

 

[Master slacker]

Do you know Harry Potter?

 

[MGX]

You're not insinuating a Harry wand is behind it all?

 

[mudpuppy]

^That reminds me, the Lansing, MI area United Way chair's name is Harry Johnson. Seriously, see it for yourself: http://www.capitalareaunitedway.org/

 

[Roy T.]

"My parents didn't suggest anything to me, but I'm glad I switched to civil engineering. It seems to have paid off, for sure."

http://www.studentsreview.com/unemployment_by_major.php3

Civil Engineering Unemployment: 13.3%

Mechanical Engineering Unemployment: 6.3%

and then...

History Majors Unemployment: 4.9%

Maybe as a minority or female there are government jobs available. But there is no whitewashing the disaster of picking civil engineering as a major... Just ask the kids getting out of school. It is the *worst* major this side of architecture - which is downright pitiful.

 

[engineergurl]

^^ probably cause all the history majors are working at minimum wage jobs and they are technically not unemployed...

 

[Slugger926]

maybe it just means that the nerds in question that couldn't find a job in their own field were able to find some kind of employment elsewhere and not report as "unemployed". I don't know about you-all, but where I live the quality of employees at Walmart and the grocery has definitely gone up. It seems like a lot of them have college degrees...

That is called under-employeed in the world of Economics. Anyone who is doing tasks other than what they could get maximum pay for is under-employeed. I have been in that boat even in an engineering position for a while now.